I keep coming back to images like this one. A stylized tree inside a circular design. I haven’t posted much art lately. Not because I haven’t been making art. It’s that a lot of it was unsatisfactory (bad). Then I got out of the habit even after I was making art that I did like. And then I thought I should try and do it in some kind of chronological order. Excuses. Excuses. Anyhow this is Daniel Smith watercolors on Winsor and Newton Coldpress Professional paper. It’s about 3 by 5 inches.
I’ve always liked the idea of dirigibles but they have never been successful as ordinary freight carriers. They simply can’t carry enough to justify their cost. The only time they were commercially successful was in the twenties and thirties when they were the equivelent of the Concorde, the fastest and most expensive way to cross the ocean. Once airplanes could make the trip, comercial dirigibles were doomed.
Dirigibles in Alaska
These are the sort of classes that I wish I would have had the time to take in college. But now we have YouTube and the Pandemic so it’s OK. History of Industrial Design isn’t just about designing factories it’s about all those everyday things we use that that are produced by industrial manufacturing. I especially like the lectures on Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
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